Carbon isotope analysis to evaluate nanoscale Fe(O) treatment at a chlorohydrocarbon contaminated site

Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 79-95

  Elsner, Martin ^a,b   Couloume, Georges Lacrampe ^a   Mancini, Silvia ^c   Burns, Leanne ^c   Lollar, Barbara Sherwood ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC DEGRADATION; CARBON ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; CONTAMINANT PLUME; CONTAMINATED AREAS; CONTAMINATED SITES; DIRECT INJECTION; HYDROGEOLOGIC SETTING; IN-SITU; INJECTION WELLS; ISOTOPE SIGNATURES; MONITORING WELLS; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE ZERO-VALENT IRON; PREINJECTION; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; TARGET COMPOUND; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TRANSFORMATION PRODUCTS; TRICHLOROETHANE;

BIODEGRADATION; CONTAMINATION; ELECTRON INJECTION; ETHANE; ETHYLENE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMPURITIES; ISOTOPES; MICROBIOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WELLS;

DEGRADATION;

BIODEGRADATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLEANUP; ETHANE; ETHYLENE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IRON; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLLUTION MONITORING; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 77955831286     PISSN: 10693629     EISSN: 17456592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6592.2010.01294.x     Document Type: Article

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